Octen launches $20 unlimited web search plan for AI agents

Nov 13, 2026
The startup founded by a former Alibaba Cloud search lead says its Pulse model finds web pages in about 10 milliseconds.

Octen, a San Francisco startup building search for AI agents, has added a $20 monthly plan for unlimited web searches, image search and its Pulse model, which locates web pages in about 10 milliseconds, VentureBeat reports. The 10 millisecond figure is the median server processing time, not the full round trip.

Pulse uses generative retrieval: a 4 billion parameter model outputs an identifier that maps to one of about 201 million known URLs, so it cannot invent addresses. Founder Kuan Zou previously led AI search at Alibaba Cloud. Octen, backed by Square Peg and Argor, says more than 5,000 developers have signed up.

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